The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Studio portrait of 180 Private (Pte) Joseph Allen Cordner, 6th Battalion. A clerk of Hamilton, Victoria, he was a talented player for Collingwood Football Club prior to enlisting on 22 August 1914, and sailed as part of B Company, 6th Battalion, on 19 October 1914, aboard HMAT Hororata. He was killed in action on 25 April 1915, aged 24, shot after being separated from his Battalion at Cape Helles. He is commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula. This photograph is from an Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau file. The Bureau, which commenced operation in October 1915, sought to identify, investigate and respond to enquiries made regarding the fate of Australian personnel. It investigated the majority of personnel posted as wounded and missing on official Army lists, as well as written enquiries from concerned relatives and friends. Approximately 32,000 individual case files were opened for Australian personnel who were reported as wounded or missing during the First World War. The Bureau employed searchers to operate both at the front and in Britain. They searched official lists of wounded and missing, interviewed comrades of missing soldiers in hospitals and wrote to men on active service. Altogether 400,000 responses were sent back to those who placed enquiries with the Bureau.
Studio portrait of 162 Sergeant Reginald Spurgeon Blamey, 14th Battalion. A crockery packer of Albert Park, Victoria, he enlisted on 9 September 1914 and sailed with the 14th Battalion aboard HMAT Uly
Studio portrait of 977 Lance Corporal (LCpl) Arthur Price, 6th Battalion. Born in Birkenhead, England, he enlisted on 17 August 1914 in West Melbourne, Victoria and sailed with H Company on 19 October
Studio portrait of 1144 Private (Pte) Clifford Gordon Cornwall, 16th Battalion. A labourer of Norwood, SA, he enlisted on 16 September 1914 and sailed from Melbourne on HMAT Ceramic with G Company, on
Portrait of Frank Samuel Crowhurst, a salesman of Stepney, SA. He enlisted in the AIF on 20 August 1914 with the number 186 and sailed from Adelaide with F Company, 10th Battalion, aboard HMAT Ascaniu
Studio portrait of 2252 Private (Pte) Wilfred Arthur Taylor, 10th Battalion, holding a bugle. A motor mechanic and cycle builder of Narracoorte, SA, he enlisted on 22 April 1915 and sailed with the 6t
Studio portrait of 1336 Private (Pte) Martin Michael Dillon, 13th Battalion. A farm labourer of Junee Reefs, NSW, he enlisted on 18 November 1914 and sailed from Sydney on HMAT Seang Bee with the 2nd
